Appeal and Proposal: Why should IITs/NITs/Universities& DUs consider 5% of their students from UCEED merit list in their Engineering Courses (BTech)?
Dear UGC Chairman/Directors/Presidents/Vice Chancellors
Greetings!
This is Dr.Ravi Saripalle. I am writing to you for an Engineering Educational Cause.
Expectations/ Skills needed for New Age Engineering Jobs/Roles
Today more than 30% of the Technology/Engineering Jobs are broadly creative in nature with technical intervention! These jobs demand inventive, artistic, hands-on, curious, attention to detail, observation, general understanding of mathematics and sciences, ability to communicate the thoughts and ideas, discipline and organized mind. Essentially these jobs expect combination of high Creative & Emotional Quotient and reasonable IQ (e.g. UX Design using Design Thinking Approach).
Deficiency in Current Engineering Entrance Examinations
Today most of the Engineering Entrance Examinations including JEE/State Level/Deemed University specific Entrance Examinations test the student performance in Maths, Science and Chemistry. There is no dispute with the current method in larger canvas. However, this is not sufficient. Keeping the new age jobs in mind, we should also invite a certain percentage of students from creative/problem solving type and purposefully induct into the University system. They act as catalysts and change the Engineering thinking, culture and approach in solving technological problems.
Current Method and Issues
UCEED (Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design) is a design entrance exam conducted by IIT Bombay to shortlist the candidates for B.Des admission. It tests the problem solving / logical ability, analytical and numerical ability of a candidate. These skills are critically needed in more than 30% of the Engineering jobs today (BTech specific jobs). These jobs demand more creativity/problem solving and reasonable technology orientation/Engineering Aptitude.
In nutshell neither BDes (completely) nor BTech (completely) is producing such a novel capacity for the new age jobs/Futuristic?Jobs/Industry 5.0 (human-centric design solution where the ideal human companion and cobots collaborate with human resources to enable personalizable autonomous manufacturing through enterprise social networks.).
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Proposed Solution
I request your esteemed institution/university to induct 5% of students from UCEED merit list in your regular BTech admissions and give them an equal weightage of 99+- percentile in JEE.
Approx 12,000 students write the UCEED examination and compete for 200 BDes. seats in IITs/IIITDM (1:60). These students keep heart & soul, blood and sweat to get into the top 200 rank. If they get beyond, their 2 years of creative preparation is lost. It means we are discouraging their?creative?potential. I am sure, most of them are also performing decently in Maths, Physics and Chemistry at CBSE/state level +2 examinations.?
These students can be given an opportunity?in BTech admissions?(A Typical/Sample Criteria could be: UCEED below 500/1000 rank with 70% in +2 MPC Stream). This proposal is a game changer in Engineering Education. This model encourages students of creative type and discourages the rote-learning type.
I request you to consider this model for the National and Engineering Educational Cause.
I look forward to hearing from you
Dr.Ravi Saripalle